Richard's Cruise Ramble

I just stumbled across an article from the New York Post reporting that a baby boy was recently born on-board. I was quite surprised to hear this had happened due to Cunard's rules on pregnancy and some of the quotes written in the article. Cunard's terms and conditions state that…

The Fred Olsen Braemar will have made the Christmases of two Polish passengers and two crew of a small sailing yacht on the 27th December 2015 as she came to their aid whilst being stranded in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The Braemar was sailing from Santa Cruz. Tenerife…

Last week we had our 2015 Cruise.co annual conference. This was held on a 3 night cruise on the Fred Olsen Balmoral which included an overnight stop in Bruges. The conference was great in so many aspects, catching up with other members of staff, lots of interesting and entertaining presentations…

I really like Norwegian Cruise line and the Freestyle type of cruise that they offer.  Although they don't have a strict dress code or dining policy the quality of the ships, dining and entertainment is certainly as good as the competition in my opinion. One thing that could potentially put…

One of my long standing clients recently went cruising on the P&O Oceania which they enjoyed. Unfortunately when they got home they had realised that he had mislaid his expensive Rolex watch. They were quite upset as well as being high in value the watch also has sentimental value. The…

Last month my colleague David and myself were lucky enough to be invited to attend the ABTA conference as we were kindly hosted by Fred Olsen cruise lines. Our group are all above, sporting our Fred Olsen polo shirts. There were some really nice people in our group and I…

I have just returned from a 7 night cruise on the MSC Fantasia.  The cruise was a Western Med cruise from Genoa to Genoa. This is the largest most modern style of ship that MSC offer and I was interested to see how it compared the the Armonia that I…

Carnival Corporation have just announced that their 10 brands which include P&O, Cunard, Princess, Holland America, Carnival and Costa have been or soon will be fitted with a new satellite communication system that will drastically improve their data connections at sea. The new Wifi@Sea system has already been introduced on…

I read an article today saying that Norwegian cruise line will now no longer be allowing passengers to remove or change their daily service charges (that is if they haven't already paid them upfront). The charge is spread out between passenger facing and behind the scenes crew. Norwegian cruise line…

I was looking at our site earlier and noticed a cruise review had been listed as not only the most liked but also the most commented on from our site. I was intrigued as to the contents of the review and decided to have a good read. Well I can…